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[–] [email protected] 28 points 2 years ago (2 children)

This is a good reminder of just how much CBC puts out there. I am a little surprised not to see a mention of using alternative search engines like DDG or Bing, as to my knowledge those aren't blocking Canadian news corps. (Please correct me if you know differently!) I guess if the goal is to raise awareness of the content you can get without an intermediary, it makes sense.

I'm very interested to see which parties cave first in this standoff. If nothing else, I'm impressed the Canadian government had the balls to mandate this of American companies.

[–] Contextual_Idiot 10 points 2 years ago (1 children)

The Canadian government seems to be following Australia's lead. Australia was able to make deals with Google and Meta, so Canada is probably looking for the same thing.

[–] terath 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Yes, key word here is "make deals," which is what Australia ended up doing. They didn't just dictate terms like Canada seems to want to. The entire point of these companies banning news is to remind our government that no, you can't just dictate your terms, you actually have to negotiate. Maybe they will, we'll have to wait and see.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

The one thing that makes government different than any other organization is yes they CAN just dictate the terms. That's their whole deal.

[–] terath 1 points 2 years ago

Not against foreign owned companies they cannot. As much as they would love to force these companies to both carry and pay for news, those companies can choose not to carry the news and thus not pay for it. Canada can not force them to do so.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I'd really like to see a CBC official Mastodon instance.

[–] terath 1 points 2 years ago

Just make a bot that reposts CBC rss feeds. I guess you might need to filter ads if they put those in-between stories, some rss feeds do.